MONUMENT

memorial, monument

(noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

repository, monument

(noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

monument

(noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

monument (plural monuments)

A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.

An important site owned by the community as a whole.

An exceptional or proud achievement.

An important burial vault or tomb.

A legal document.

A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.

Hyponyms

• cenotaph

Verb

monument (third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented)

(transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mon"u*ment, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.]

1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial. Of ancient British art A pleasing monument. Philips. Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Shak.

2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.

3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.

Syn.

– Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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